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By Robb Hicken/ BBB’s chief storyteller Setting annual resolutions require you look back over the previous year. Sometimes you come across things that you’d wished you could have accomplished but didn’t. Here’s a list of 5 things you didn’t accomplish in 2014: • You didn’t win the lottery. International lotteries are illegal whether you received […]

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By Robb Hicken/ BBB’s chief storyteller A scammer calling Treasure Valley residents about a huge sweepstakes had no catchy comeback for Kathie Hilliard. “I answered the call and was told I had won $5.5 million, a car and an all expense paid cruise from Publisher’s Clearing House,” she says. “When he finished telling me I’d won, […]

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By Robb Hicken/ BBB’s chief storyteller With her grandson in a hospital back east, Idaho Falls resident Carol Jones says she mistakenly picked up the phone thinking it was going to be an update when she saw the 202- prefix. The caller said he was with Lloyd’s of America and needed to discuss “her $350,000 […]

A Burley woman is a recent target of a scam that promised $250,000 through the Publishers Clearing House. “Skepticism is probably the best response,” Todd Dvorak, communications director at the Idaho Attorney General’s office, told the Times-News. “There are 101 varieties of scams out there. We haven’t had any other reports yet about this type of thing, […]

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By Robb Hicken/ BBB’s chief storyteller The 81-year-old grandmother in Grandview, Idaho, was in the worst of ways. She’d taken in her fifty-something daughter who was ill, the bills were stacking up, and it seemed that it was going down hill fast. Then, the call came. “’You’ve not won the main sweepstakes,’ he told me, […]

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By Robb Hicken/ BBB’s chief storyteller Arlene’s phone rang at her Parker residence for a third time, and the same voice was on the phone. “The first time he identified himself as being with the FBI,” she says. She described the details of the heavy accented voice on the other end of the line. “My […]

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By Robb Hicken/ BBB’s chief storyteller Get out your wallet …. “You’ve won the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes!” Sounds great, right? No, wait, it’s a scam Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes’ call. The scam goes as follows: Global International representatives are calling residents and telling the person who answers the phone that he/she has won a […]

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2/27/2015 - This consumer had a Negative experience with Legacy Management Group, LLC located in Boise ID.Customer Recommends this Business: UnlikelyCustomer Review:The worse management company I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. They were always thinking up reasons to enter the apartment. There was no privacy. They made bogus charges up after we […]

2/26/2015 - This consumer had a Negative experience with Eagle Rock RV & Custom Hitch Service Center located in Idaho Falls ID.Customer Recommends this Business: UnlikelyCustomer Review:Brought my camper in to this business to get some tie downs installed. I recieved a bid of $350 and told the business owner to proceed at that price. […]

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CEO Dale Dixon gives three changes in three minutes that have occurred at the BBB serving the Snake River Region in the past month. BBBHelp.com, BBB.org, and CCE (Center for Character Ethics) business assessments.

Business Savvy

Northwest Nazarene University professor Mollie Sweet talks about customer service and what businesses should do to make it count with Dale Dixon, CEO for Better Business Bureau serving the Snake River Region.

Scam alert

If you think Microsoft is calling you, you're wrong. Here an editor for Wired Magazine walks a would-be scam artist through the scam, only to scare her off. Don't attempt this. Read the report at http://bit.ly/1falwN0

By Dale Dixon/ BBB’s trust evangelist Jeers: to the lady in Nampa (Roxie) for selling me two bogus Net 10 phone cards last week. I bought those for my wife to use during the Holidays. I’d like to make people aware of buying these or other cards that still have the codes unscratched, giving the […]

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